Born Quote by Mac Davis

There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or she might…

— Pete Seeger

I've always been drawn back to the South, whether it's Southern California or in Florida, where I grew up, and I wanted to write…

— Don Felder

I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.

— Peter Steele

It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.

— Tom Waits

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more…

— Iris DeMent

My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way…

— Donald Fagen

That's how life is: there are peaks and valleys in life, and that's how I like to write songs.

— Mark Foster

Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.

— Bill Callahan

I had to be honest in my songwriting for it to be where it is, and it's always scary wondering if anyone will connect…

— Calum Scott

In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an…

— Phil Harris

I've written songs everywhere, and I think the place does matter.

— John Rzeznik

The weirdest place I have ever written a song is probably in an airport, and I got an idea so fast that I just…

— Taylor Swift